Yertle Turtles?.................
Posted on 10/08/2013 6:58:33 AM PDT by lbryce
Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.
The insight has been hailed as one of the most important in the understanding of the cosmos. Without the Higgs mechanism all particles would travel at the speed of light and atoms would not exist.
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Which begs the question:
What is a Higgs Boson made of?.................
What is a Higgs Boson made of?.................
God? :)
“Stuff”. Really, really, really, small “stuff”...
Do I hear God laughing? Psalm 2:4? “He who sits in the heavens laughs. He holds them in derision.”
And that stuff is made of even smaller stuff and the smaller stuff is made of even smaller stuff....until our reality and how we perceive our existence has absolutely no meaning.
Is this Obama’s second or third Nobel prize?
Great fleas have lesser fleas
Upon their backs to bite ‘em.
And lesser fleas have lesser still,
And so ad infinitum.
Interesting and impressive research. However the most daunting challenge in physics is to prove 0x0 does not equal 0. Until someone can demonstrate that seemingly impossible equation, the most existential question posed by man remains unanswered.
Turtles, in groups of 42.
God laughs at the hubris, arrogance, temerity in which Man indulges in fantasy.
Yertle Turtles?.................
“Without the Higgs mechanism all particles would travel at the speed of light and atoms would not exist.”
This kind of thinking is what passes for science nowadays.
Sorry, scientists. The universe has been functioning quite well without your silly theories. All particles don’t travel at the speed of light, and atoms do exist.
The universe doesn’t depend on your equations. The job of your equations is to describe the universe. If they don’t, they are invalid and you have to keep calculating.
So your understanding of the universe depends on having seen the trace of a particle moving at the expected angle with roughly the expected mass. Very shaky base to build your model of the universe on.
“Sorry, scientists. The universe has been functioning quite well without your silly theories. All particles don’t travel at the speed of light, and atoms do exist.”
Which is exactly their point, the Higgs field does exist, so particles do exist and have mass. BTW the Higgs Boson is only proof of the Higgs field that gives particles mass.
You can believe in magic, but I will stick to science.
Everybody knew already that bosos were running the universe.
Now, let someone find anti-bosons and we could maybe get a decent bomb outy of it.
Thank you for a sense injection into what is turning into a really embarrassing thread
:)
Then all the stores started using the word 'Holiday' instead of Christmas and those Christians complained: What happened to 'Christmas'?
Now scientists are talking about the 'God Particle' and some Christians are upset because it seems to be a dig or a blasphemy against God. At some point in the future the general public won't be using the word 'God' at all to describe anything. Those Christians will long for the day when people use to talk about the 'God Particle'.
Lately I've noticed I don't hear people yelling out 'Jesus Christ' as often as they did when they stub their toes or are upset for some other reason. Some Christians will think this is great: Yay! Less blasphemy. But in the long run we'll be hearing fewer 'Jesus Christs' not because people are becoming more respectful of God, but because they have abandoned Him entirely.
Excellent post.
To call it the "God Particle" is blasphemous enough.
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